For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.